Terrible performance with an i5-6500.

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Hi Community,

I am having a strange issue that I cannot figure out, I have a computer with an i5-6500 processor running Windows 10 Pro.

I have noticed in recent weeks that my performance of the processor is bad. It runs at 30% on idle, 60% just watching a YouTube video and seriously impacts my gaming performance. I have checked the background processes and there is nothing showing as hogging the resources also I have closed all background programs with still no luck to the performance. Looking in task manager shows me not accurate results when you add up all of the processes.

Very very strange and it is driving me mad trying to figure out the problem. I wonder if it is related to the specter exploits. Maybe I got patched late. It is driving me nuts please help thanks!

 
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Apologies, forgot to add that info in, it's around 30c and 45c during heavy tasks. I like to keep my fan on high. No thermal throttling here.
 
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Ran a scan with Bit-defender, Malware-bytes and Adwcleaner for extra measure. Nothing found except for Cheat Engine on malware-bytes which I used to mess with Plants vs Zombies a while ago lol.

The performance was really bad in Windows 10 1803 but now since 1809 I'm really feeling the performance hit. I even reloaded my machine not to long ago. Should I "upgrade" to Windows 7? Maybe that will fix it. Also one other note while doing the scan with malware-bytes Task Manager is being weird with CPU totals. Is this just a bug with windows?
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It is running at a constant 3.3Ghz.
It see's all 4 cores and they are all active.
I'm running a GTX 1060 6gb.
 
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Downloaded a program called system explorer to view CPU stats.

This program seems to give much more accurate results. It shows me around 5% idle which is what I expect and around 17-20% watching a YouTube video. Comparing task manager side by side Task Manager is way off. My system still runs terribly though. Maybe since Task Manager is detecting higher speeds being used Windows is being more power conservative or something? I'm not sure. I'm probably going to switch back to Windows 7 since well, you understand.
 
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